Cigarette roller



F. CLIFFORD.

CIGARETTE ROLLER.

APPLICATION FILED MAYIS, r920.

Patented June 13, 1922,

Frank IlIiUurL V iiialiliti FRANK CLIFFORD, OF MILWAUKEE, VIISCONSIN.

CIGARETTE ROLLER.

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Application filed May 18,

To all whom it may concern: I p

Be it known that I, FRANK CLIFFORD, a citizen of the United States, and resident of lvlilwaukee, in the county of .Milwaukee and State of lVisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cigarette Rollers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention relates to new and useful improvements in cigarette-rollers, and has for its principal object to provide a simply constructed device which can be easily manipulated and when not in use can be readily carried in the owners pocket.

An additional object of this invention is to provide a device of this character having a means for forming a cigarette wrapper into the required shape and subsequently filling it with tobacco as the same is withdrawn from the form.

Still another object of the invention is to provide a device of this character with, an agitating means whereby the cigarette wrapper may be easily filled with tobacco and whereby clogging of said tobacco within the filler is eliminated.

With these general objects in view the invention consists in the novel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts which will be hereinafter more particularly described and claimed and shown in the accompanying drawing, wherein:

Figure 1 represents side elevational view, partly in section, showing a cigarette wrapper partially wrapped about the former.

Figure 2 is a similar view with the wrapper formed and about to be withdrawn from the device.

Figure 3 is a sectional view taken substantially on a plane at right angles to the plane of the section of Figures 1 and 2 and showing the cigarette wrapper nearly completely withdrawn from the former and practically filled with the necessary quantity of tobacco.

Referring more particularly to the drawing it will be seen that the reference char acter 1 denotes a cylindrical tubular member of a diameter substantial of the same as that of the usual cigarette and of a somewhat greater length, this member being in the nature of a former around which a cigarette wrapper W can be shaped. Such a former 1 is open at both ends and has Specification of Letterslatent. Patgnted J 13 1922 1920. Serial no. 382,294.

one end provided with a receiver 2, the normal thickness of this receiver in one direction being substantially the same as the diameter of said former. The width of the receiver transversely of its thickness being greater than said thickness and flared as indicated at 8.

Both the former 1 and the receiver 2 can be constructed of any desired material and of the same or separate parts. However, n its preferred embodiment the receiver is composed of some flexible resilient material which, while normally of a thick ness as indicated in Figure 3, can be made approximately circular in plain view by pressing upon the sides a. F igure 2 indicates the manner in which the receiver mav be flexed from one shape to another, the dot and dash lines indicating the normal position and the solid lines the position which it preferably assumes when tobacco is being poured thereinto from the bag B or other container.

Inasmuch as the former 1 is of substantially small diameter, there is a tendency of the tobacco clogging therein. Consequently I provide an agitating member in the form of a non-straight wire 5, this being located with one end adjacent the inner end of the receiver 2 and the other end extending into the former 1. The latter is slotted as at 6 and slidably receives a handle 7 with which the wire 5 is connected (for instance see Figure 3). By moving the wire 5 longitudinally by means of the handle 7, it is obvious that the tobacco in the former 1 will be loosened and agitated so that it will readily flow from the outlet end thereof.

In constructing a cigarette with the aid of this improved device a cigarette wrapper is first wound on the former 1 to provide a paper or other tube depending upon the character of the wrapper, after which one end is twisted as at 8 to close the same. A quantity of tobacco isthen poured into the receiver 2, the same being flexed as shown in Figure 2, until the former 1 is substantially filled, such amount of tobacco being sufiicient to fill the tube T. The next operation is to gradually slide the tube from the outer end of the former 1 as indicated in Figure 3, the tobacco during such movement of the tube flowing thereinto to fill the same. Should the tobacco clog within the former 1 the agitator is brought into play as above mentioned, and after all of the tobacco has flowed into the tube formed of the wrapper W the cigarette is complete and the end opposite the twisted end 8 can be similarly closed if necessary. Such an article as this provides a simple cigarette former which can be conveniently carried about along with a bag of tobacco and a package of cigarette papers or wrappers.

Attention is directed to the fact that the former 1 can be reciprocated Within the cigarette paper tube T, during a tobacco filling operation to thus rain or pack the tobacco in the paper shell to the desired density, whereby a firm cigarette is formed to the taste of the user.

- In testimony that I claim the foregoing 25 I have hereunto set my hand at Milwaukee, in the countyotl ll lilwaukee and State of Wisconsin.

FRANK CLIFFORD. 

